Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-10-16
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Hetty Green Is credited with being
the most Of q capitalist Of her sex In
the United States. Her wealth would
foot up from So, 000, goo TO SAC, 900 coo 4
suppose. She inherited SIS, 000, 900,
married ST 600 900, and has made the
rost by shrewd finaneierinE.
Another clear-headed w0Inn Is Miss
Elizabeth Garrett, who must have So
600, 600 or more, and Who knows how
70 takecare Of il. She was her fathers
private secretary for years, and under
stands Baltimore & Ohio stock as well
rs anybody. Miss Garrett Is not as
rich a. she would be II she were less
charitable. She never filings money
away recklessly, but espends large
sums with discrimination and good
sense on educational and philanthropic
projects.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins Is richer than
Miss Garrett, though her neighbors,
the village folk, are less enthusiastic
about her than they q ed to be before
she put up high fence or Chinese wall
about thai 81 .0o0. 900 palace Of hers II
Great Darlington. Mrs. Hopkins Is
not worth less than SO, 009 600 or $685.
0o0. 900, probably. and she. 100, Is noted
for her charity.
Mrs. Emily II. NOR, the heir Of the
Morgan property. pays the largest per
ronal assessment 81 any woman in New
York, and Mrs. Sarah II. Green comes
next her. Mrs. John Jacob Aston has
The tidy sam Of from 100000 20 So
Rich New York widows estimated at
from 81 900 900 10 $4,000. 900 abound,
and there are some hundreds Of un-
married women under thirty who have
from $4,000 upward In their own
names. Mrs. w. =. Dodge has invest
Cd her money well. and L amounts TO
IS 900, 600 perhaps. Commodore Van
derbill's widow has something more
than double what her husband left her.
Mrs. Robert Goelet and Garrison Pot
ter's widow are not poor. Miss May
Calender must be worth 3 million.
The Misses Leary and the Misses Fur
Miss, OF Fifth Avenue, have large in
comes. Miss Adele Grant, who has
been starring it, with Miss Winslow for
foil, has 100000 OF more. Mrs. Lang
Try has got above the 100000 marx.
Mrs. John kinturn has money. Miss
Grace II. Dodge has q fortune Of her
own. Mrs. Frank Leslie must have
81 900, 900. Mrs. Hicks Lord has sew
efal millions.
There are some married women in
New York who have private fortunes.
Mrs. whitney has plenty and win have
more. Whifelaw Reid got hts money
with d. O. Niils's daughter, and Mayor
Hewitt got his with Peter Cooper's
daughter.
A rich Now Englander Is Mrs. SUIT
ton, OF Peabody, Mass. Her husband
left her S5,000,000. She has made Il
not far from S. 900 900. She has not
had happy life. for the one son upon
whom che set her heart broke his col
/ lar bone half dozen times falling from
otfomans and chairs, and finally broke
hts neck falling from Shetland pony.
She has endowed q magnificent refer
enee library room in the Peabody Ii
bFary. founded BY George Peabody,
and her boys picture framed IN gold,
hangs on is walls.
Mrs. Frcderfck Lenoir, OF Spring
field, Is another rich Bay state woman,
owning perhaps 400. 0oo. Agassis's
daughter, Mrs. shaw, Of Boston, -
made wealthy BY her husbands gifts,
and supports great Of free KIN
one al he wealthsest danes oi Bal
HmOfH - MS A4ttptAf 11teA ~
| Thomas Winans. She has 80. co. coo
or more. Mrs. Sarah Mckvoy, Of Chi
cago. has hall chat, perhaps. Mrs =.
ii Mccormick. Of Chicago, has about
/ that much.
The nrexel sisters, Of Philadelphia,
have some millions apiece, and the
widow Of Tom scott. the railroad pres
/ iaent had 81 90 COO or $500. 900 LETT
her hy Der husband. There ara doEens
az rich Philadelphia widows and some
GOOD catches among he heifesses,
Ms Ellen Erben, for instances, has q
~ income. Miss Lillian Reeves and
| Mss Helen Riyes, late settlers N tbs
CIV q BrOtheriy Love, have nos lesa
1 fhsn 81 So. 90 each. Mrs. Dission has
a great deal q money.
WaNhinKton Is not city Of rich NO
man. bat there are several who have
al .OO0. COO. some who have more than
thaf xarn, Ii would be hard, indeed
- 6na q city in the United states
Whieh has not scne women who's
property lists reckon up good sums
my. World.